People v. Wright

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

The defendant had agreed to enter a guilty plea to a charge of second degree burglary in full satisfaction of the indictment against him. The record indicates that the defendant understood that the sentence to be imposed was to run consecutively, as required by subdivision 2-a of section 70.25 of the Penal Law, to the time defendant owed on a previously imposed sentence. At the sentencing, however, the Judge mistakenly stated that the sentence imposed was to run concurrently with the prior sentence.

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